Elmer Ellsworth Brown

For the 1911-1915 Major League Baseball player, see Elmer Brown (baseball)

Elmer Ellsworth Brown (1861 – 1934) was an American educator. Born at Kiantone in Chautauqua County, New York, he studied at New York University, graduated from Illinois State Normal University in 1881 and at the University of Michigan (1889); then he studied in Germany and received a Ph.D. in 1890. He was principal of public schools in Belvidere, Ill. in 1881-84, assistant State secretary of the Y. M. C. A. of Illinois (1884-87), and principal of the high school at Jackson, Mich. in 1890-91. He taught education at the University of Michigan (1891–93) and at the University of California, Berkeley (1893–1906). After directing the reorganization of the Bureau of Education as U.S. commissioner of education (1906–11), he became chancellor of New York University, where he founded NYU Press in 1916 "to publish contributions to higher learning by eminent scholars." He lead the Andiron Club from 1916-1922 and was associated with the Eucleian Society. Brown retired from NYU in 1933 and died in 1934 in New York.

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His works include:

The Making of Our Middle Schools (1903).
The Origin of American State Universities (1905).
Government by Influences, and Other Addresses (1909).
An Efficient Organization and Enlarged Scope for the Bureau of Education (1910).
A Few Remarks (1933).